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February 13, 2011 
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Attention tree huggers! OAT shoes have developed the first ever completely biodegradable shoes. And attention shoe lovers! They’re actually kinda cute!
Making their debut at Amsterdam International Fashion Week – where they nabbed second place in the Green Fashion Competition – the shoes are the product of two years of tireless research and development which included visiting craftsmen, as well as swinging by the factories of modern shoemakers, to identify the optimal combination of materials and manufacturing. Read more »
October 4, 2010 Comments (0)
We watched New York Fashion Week, and now it’s time to give London some love! Let’s take a tour of some of the hottest shoes we saw on the runway and on the well-dressed passerby.
Lace-Up Boots
Lace-up boots look hard to take off, but don’t forget that they often have a back zip to make things easier on you. While peach and cream boots (sometimes as high as over-the-knee) rocked the runway, the lace-up boots we loved off the runway were in a much more practical black or brown.
Labels to Explore: Bottega Venetta, Burberry, Boutique 9 Read more »
September 27, 2010 Comments (0)
Fashion Week in New York has come and gone, but there are enough photos to last us all year. Here’s your second-part installment of our top New York shoes that we saw on the runway and on the feet of some of the attendants.
Laced Booties on Olivia Palermo
Booties were everywhere in the crowd this season, and Olivia Palermo looked stunning in front of the camera… of course! Her laced-up booties had a closed tongue and fine laces that emphasized their delicate nature. They can be paired with a pencil skirt or smart dress, just like she did… but the camera-readiness is something harder to copy. Read more »
March 14, 2010 Comments (0)
Someone at Givenchy clearly wasn’t thinking straight, scheduling the show to be held outdoors in early March in Paris. While editors huddled together against the below freezing wind and pitied the poor models in chiffon, everyone at least agreed that the brilliant designer, Riccardo Tisci, was definitely still using his head.
A super refined collection of smooth tailored items in a simple palette of deep black, stark white, intense crimson, and neon green highlights looked as fresh as when Helmut Lang first debuted such styles with his groundbreaking collection in the 90s. Touches of goth lace, tons of soft leather, and corset-like constructions kept the style definitively Givenchy though. Read more »
March 13, 2010 Comments (0)
An extravaganza of color, shapes, and materials lit up the feet of Balenciaga‘s runway girls at the Paris show. Starting with a seemingly straightforward 60s penny loafer, our dear visionary desiger, Nicolas Ghesquiere, showed us how to make a revolution from a shoe.
Cut up and color blocked to the extreme, these shoes brought a whole new level to “rethink”. Cubed heels that looked like miniature skyscrapers with a riot of inlays redefined modern for everyone in the audience. Clip on platforms and squared heel covers gave a piece-by-piece construction feeling to these wow-your-socks-off shoes, which harked backed to Ghesquiere’s beloved collection of Lego shoes.
Overlays on the heel and vamp were created in hard materials and finished in equally outrageous colors, marble, or wood grain and fixed onto the shoes with rivets. Watch out for these high impact, construction site-inspired finishes to have a major impact on new shoe design. Read more »
March 10, 2010 Comments (0)
Always a lover of the international, Jean Paul Gaultier showed one of his best collections this time with a clearly stated theme of combining influences from all over the world, or at least from his favorite style-inspiring places in the world- Greece, Morocco, India, Russia, China, and Mexico- leading to an extravaganza of intense colors, embroidery, and wild details that would be pretty hard to pull off, to say the least, but had designers and stylists staring with their mouths agape, dreaming of new possibilities.
There’s never been a better time for Gaultier’s message that influences come from and reverberate around the world- we are an interconnected globe now and anyone, anywhere could watch a live telecast of the show and think of their own mash-ups of local and international styles. Read more »
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